Featured Profiles
Dedicated Pages
Medal of Honor - Infantry
Audie Murphy
Lieutenant, 15th Infantry Regiment
One of the most decorated American soldiers of World War II. At Holtzwihr, Murphy climbed onto a burning tank destroyer and used its machine gun to hold off a German attack while calling artillery onto the fight.
Armor Commander
Creighton Abrams
37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division
A hard-driving armored commander whose battalion became central to the Bastogne relief story and the legend of Cobra King.
Army Commander
George S. Patton
Third U.S. Army
Patton's speed, staff work, and aggressive operational style shaped the relief of Bastogne and the wider Allied counterattack in the Ardennes.
Story-Linked Profiles
Story Hubs and Profiles
Revolutionary War
Treason in Ink
Declaration Signers
The hub for the signers who risked names, fortunes, families, and public lives. Individual signer pages live inside.
Navy - Medal of Honor
Ernest E. Evans
Commander, USS Johnston DD-557
Turned a destroyer toward battleships at Samar and bought Taffy 3 the time it needed.
Navy - Survival
John F. Kennedy
Lieutenant, PT-109
After PT-109 was cut in half, Kennedy helped keep survivors moving through the Blackett Strait ordeal.
Airborne Command
John Frost
Lieutenant Colonel, 2nd Parachute Battalion
Held the north end of Arnhem bridge far longer than the plan could support.
Infantry - Unit Focus
The 442nd Rescue
442nd RCT and 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry
A people page for this story should track the trapped Texans, the Nisei rescuers, and the commanders ordering the attack.
Medic - Medal of Honor
Desmond Doss
Conscientious objector, U.S. Army
Refused to carry a weapon and became one of the defining rescue stories of Okinawa.
Marine - Medal of Honor
John Basilone
Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps
Held the line on Guadalcanal, then returned to combat and was killed at Iwo Jima.
Resistance - OSS/SOE
Virginia Hall
Special Operations Executive and OSS
The Gestapo hunted her across occupied France. She kept building networks anyway.
Sniper - Winter War
Simo Hayha
Finnish Army
Fought with iron sights in snow and became one of the most feared marksmen of the Winter War.
Resistance - Intelligence
Witold Pilecki
Polish Underground
Volunteered to enter Auschwitz, organized resistance inside, and reported what he saw.
Armor - Tank Ace
Lafayette G. Pool
3rd Armored Division
America's best-known tank ace, leading Shermans through the brutal mobile war in France.
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